I got my first
REAL camera in the early nineties, a Canon AE-1 with various assorted lenses,
in a number of pawn shops scattered across the American Southwest.
It cost me a couple hundred bucks. After I had it, I put it away,
and didn't touch it for years.

Then, in early '99, I found myself with something worth photographing;
a scenic little piece of property that was all mine...